Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-25
PLAYERS QUARRELS.
Picturesque Conflicts on The Stage
with Curtains DOwn-Paulinc Hall
and Miss UTGahart.
The Sophie EJre-Annis Robs Dressing
Room TrOuble-Tho DAuvray.
SOthern DiffiCulsy,
Cerresnoneence cd dc eazette.

are exceedingly frequent, and the details
OF them ere usually spicy and interesting.
The battle royal between Sophie Eyre and
Annie Robe, when each OF those ladies
considered herself the leading actress st
Wallack's tAester,-it is two or three
years ago now-COmmsnded the liyeliest
interest of the town for several days. The
contest in this case was as to which
actress should have the principal dressing
room. Mr. WsllaCk settled the matter
by taking the apartment himself Then
there are the spats between the ladies'
over their costumes, and chiefly
over the question whether or not
performer in an inferior role
shall be permitted TO wear the most
costly and superior dress, simply because
the minor and probably the poorer actress
Is the TiCneT woman, or, more properly
speaking, has the richer friends. Years
and years ago when Fanny Davenport was
playing iu Mr.. Days stock company in
what is now the Fifth Avenue theater-
the actress is now something over forty
years Of sge-5hc WAS in the hsbi. of
playing unimportant parts in ) 0G0 dress
es, and ) $1,000 dresses were very rare, in
deed, then. And among theatrical tradi-
tons which live in the mouths OF the
players Of to-day, and which are recalled
particularly 81 this season of the year,
when players are idle and cOngregate
on Union square, or e. similar resorts,
is one tradition to the effect that Miss
Davenport appeared at the time Of which
| sm writing as q maid Of honor in g
ShakesDeTian revival do not reca I the
play inst nCw-and she wore an imported
dressmaker's man milliner's costume,
worth about as much as house and lot,
while her queen enacted by Ada Dyss,
then newly arrived from London. was
COstumed in d modest English stage
dress, faxed up to look We'll from the
front, but worth perhaps So Taere
were stage dresses Ia those days, and
stage jewelry, papier mache bTic-s- 0raC,
and stage property chickens, but now
Mr.. Palmer he's Delm0ricO serve
supper on the stage, Mr.. DAILY and
Miss DAuvrsy spend thousands Of dollars
year ia vases, plaques aud Dresden
china figures. Nine. Janguschek and
Alvin JOsIin have real diamonds and adj
vertise them, and the SO z week actress
sC0rns the cheap CTestiCn of the stage
COstumtr, and spends the equivalent Of
s,X month"; earnings. It's g queer world,
according 10 an old fellow | met the other
day, and 9 qUeergT world than it used TO
be-
Bus, ID return 20 these picturesque
subjects on the stage Tnen the curtain
is down. There wss one Of them the
other day, when the principals were Miss
Isabella JrguI3rt and Mss Pauline Hal, /
the rival queens Of dudedOm at the Ca
siaO. And, IS usual, dress Wss at the /
bottom Of the trouble. Urquhart mad /
gotten new dress Of rich white satin, /
with 6 longer train on it than w2s al I
taC1ed to Miss HANS robe I'll
was several feet longer, and every
time that the comic opera prima donna
saw it stretch proudly across the stage /
she was tempted TO put another foot or /
it-her own shepgly foot, in faCf, and de
stToy the hang cf j.. u seems Il little .
strange to talk of IOug-tTaiGed dresses in /
. comic opera when the stage manager I
has BEEN cutting sly ~ at them time out
Of mind and has almost reached the /.
wsistbsnd, which the fashionable dress f.
maker working from the opposite dircC- 4.
tiOn has also arrived at; Du, Erminie mas .
two o. them, and there 5 a much mate /.
rial in the ss 10 Nl the other girls cos /.
tunes Of the opera pun together; AMI this .
is especially true siaCe Miss IIsll made /.
rgquisitiOG for another slIken robe /.
and got II, ana it betters Miss /.
Urquhsrt's train By a yard at lesst
When both ladies' aye on, Jhc flooring of
the stage is scarcely 10 be seen ct al.
The Helen DaUyrav- Et"Ar1i SJtharn- /
Hayden Frghman trouble, which is Jus. .
now settled, hsd various new aaI sttrac- I.
tive features. Mr. SJtherl was Miss
DaUvray's leading msG, ard was under
engagement to her for neE- season. /.
This last May ne made Bit al the be-
ginning Of the supplementary sumner
season, in trjf.ng but pleasing little
farce called The Highest Bidder. H
conceived at Orce the ambition to 90
starring and signed with NJ Frghmsu 10 .
do SO, beginning with the termination .
Of his contract with Miss Dzuvray
The ambition was foolish one, because .
Mr.. S0theru'. par. in il is not a star part .
and the work Itself does not, | think,pO .
sess the solid qualities which wOuldmake .
It a success on the road. Bat that's sim
ply an expression OF opinion. Miss .
Dauv-sy, under the circumstances which .
had arisen, said that she wss putting 8 .
thr ugh the county next sea
son for the purpose Of making s prOvIn-
=
TO have a leading man whom her audi
enCes would miss the following season.
She engaged another actor and Mr.. S0td-
rrn was booked for the shelf Miss
Dauvray's manager wanted $1,000 to re-
lease him. This was the exact situation
OF affairs. l met Miss DsUvrEy On the
PIAZZA Of the Grand Union Hotel st Sar-
at0gs the other dsv. l have tslked with
Mr.. S3thern in his dressing room and
with Mes rs. Frahnan and Hayden in the
ctlice Of these manSgers aud the charges
al rgfutatj0ns, the accusations and de-
mails, the arguments and counter srgU-
ments used by the qU2rtette gre and have
been very entertaining. Miss
D2uyr2y feels badly abOu. the
matter not Only on business
but also on peT=o2sl grounds. NJ. So
the I'll is very young man, and TWO years
o she made him her Leading Gctor au3
gave him opportunity before the public
which he WOllj not have secured in all
probability 50 early in MS career. The
2lsys she has produced in theLyceUm the
ller advanced him in his at. lie became
part snd parcel of the company, and as
to It as John Drew 20 Days {
company. Naturally she did not ike 20
AVE him 90. Mr.. Ershman said
hat Miss Dsuyray was Jealous,